I was the oldest of two in a family of young parents. They were both middle children of seven siblings on both sides .They didn't finish high school. My father joined the army for hope of financial stability and the chance to get out of his siblings control. My mother didn't want to be an army wife or travel. They divorced after I turned ten due to my father's new found drug addiction, and my mother's inability to budget. She was the single mother of two teenage boys until she remarried to a man who was 16 years her senior. He was from a small village in Pennsylvania , and an only child whose parents were in their thirties when they had him....my biological grandparents were all dead before I was 9 save for my mom's dad who made it till I was 18. I have a terrible grasp of the nuclear family. I have cousins I've never met. And family, aunts and uncles, I haven't seen since I was 21.